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  "The Clocks of the Dead"
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  "Cameo Appearance"
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  "In the Library"
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• What the Grass Says, Kayak, 1967 - not in print
  

• Somewhere among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes, Kayak, 1969 - not in print
  

• Four Yugoslav Poets: Ivan V. Lalic, Branko Milijkovic, Milorad Pavic, Ljubomir Simovic (translator), Lillabulero Press, 1970 - not in print
  

• Ivan V. Lalic, Fire Gardens: Selected Poems 1956-1969, (translator), New Rivers Press, 1970 - not in print
  

• The Little Box: poems of Vasko Popa (translator), The Charioteer, 1970
  

• Dismantling the Silence, Braziller/Jonathan Cape, 1971
  

• White, New Rivers Press, 1972 - not in print
  

• Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, Braziller, 1974 - not in print
  

• The Poetry of Surrealism: An Anthology (translator with others), Little, Brown and Company, 1974 - not in print
  

• Biography and a Lament, Poems 1961-1967, Bartholomew's Cobble, 1976 - not in print
  

• Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers (editor with Mark Strand), Ecco Press, 1976 - not in print
  

• Contemporary Yugoslav Poetry (translator), University of Iowa Press, 1977 - not in print
  

• Charon's Cosmology, Braziller, 1977 - not in print
  

• Djordje Nicolic, Key to Dreams According to Djordje (translator), Elpenor Books, 1978 - not in print
  

• Vasko Popa, Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems 1956-1975 (translator), Oberlin College, 1979
  

• Classic Ballroom Dances, Braziller, 1980 - not in print
  

• White: A New Version, Logbridge-Rhodes Press, 1980 - not in print
  

• Slavko Mihalic, Atlantis: Selected Poems 1953-1982 (translator with Peter Katmiler), Greenfield Review Press, 1983 - not in print
  

• Austerities, Braziller/Secker and Warburg, 1982/1983 - not in print
  

• Weather Forecast for Utopia and Vicinity, Poems 1967-1982, Station Hill Press, 1983 - not in print
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• The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays and Notes on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1985
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• Selected Poems, 1963-1983, Braziller/Secker and Warburg, 1986 - not in print
  

• Unending Blues, Mariner Books; 1 edition (May 1987)
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• Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (translator), Ecco Press, 1988 - not in print
  

• Roll Call of Mirrors: Selected Poems of Ivan V. Lalic (translator), Wesleyan University Press, 1988
  

• The Essential Campion (editor), The Essential Poets Series, 7, Ecco Press, 1988 - not in print
  

• Aleksandar Ristovic, Some Other Wine and Light (translator), Charioteer Press, 1989 - not in print
  

• The World Doesn't End, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989
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• The Book of Gods and Devils, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990
  

• Selected Poems, 1963-1983: Revised and Expanded, Braziller, 1990
  

• Bright Moves, J. Allyn Rosser (editor), Northeastern University Press, 1990 - not in print
  

• Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir, University of Michigan Press, 1990
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• Slavko Janevski, The Bandit Wind (translator), Dryad Press, 1991 - not in print
  

• The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry (translator), Graywolf Press, 1992
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• Novica Tadic, Night Mail (translator), Field Translation Series, 19, Oberlin College Press, 1992
  

• Hotel Insomnia, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992
  

• The Best American Poetry, 1992 (editor with David Lehman), Macmillan, 1992 - not in print
  

• The Best American Poetry 1992 (editor), Scribners, 1993
  

• The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs, University of Michigan Press, 1994
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• A Wedding in Hell, Harcourt Brace, 1994
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• Frightening Toys, Faber & Faber, 1995
  

• Walking the Black Cat, Harcourt Brace, Thomson Learning, 1996
  

• Looking for Trouble, Faber & Faber, 1997
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• Homage to Hat and Uncle Guide and Eliot, Tomaz Salamun (editor), Arc Publications, 1997
  

• Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia (translator with others), Bloodaxe Books, 1998
  

• Orphan Factory (essays), University of Michigan Press, 1998
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• Alexsandar Ristovic, Devils' Lunch (translator), Faber and Faber, 1999
  

• Jackstraws, Harcourt Brace/Faber & Faber, 1999
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• Selected Early Poems, Braziller, 1999
  

• Deborah Tall, Summons: Poems (editor), Sarabande Books, 2000 - not in print
  

• Tomaz Salamun, Feast (editor), Harcourt, 2000
  

• A Fly in the Soup (essays), University of Michigan Press, 2000
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• Metaphysician in the Dark (essays), University of Michigan Press, 2000
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• Night Picnic, Harcourt, 2001
  

• Horace: The Odes (translator with others), Princeton University Press, 2002
  

• Charles Simic in Conversation with Michael Hulse, Between the Lines, 2002
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• The Voice at 3A.M.: Selected Later Poems, Harcourt, 2003
  

• Selected Poems 1963-2003, Faber and Faber, 2004
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• A Wake for the Living: poems of Radmila Lazic (translator), Graywolf Press, 2004
  

• New British Poetry (editor with Don Paterson), Graywolf Press, 2004
  

• Aunt Lettuce I Want to Peek Under Your Skirt, Bloomsbury, 2005
  

• My Noiseless Entourage, Harcourt, 2005
  

• Charles Simic Reading from his poems, CD, The Poetry Archive, 2006
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• Memory Piano (prose), University of Michigan, 2006
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• That Little Something, Harcourt, 2007
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• The Monster Loves his Labyrinth, Ausable Press, 2007
  

• Thomas Campion: Poems selected by Charles Simic, Faber & Faber, 2007